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Forest Garden Livestream

Wednesday 28th October, 10am BST

All Together Now

The beauty of a forest garden is that it integrates ornamental, wildlife and edible gardening in one space. A forest garden is also just a name; there are many people who garden in a environmentally sensitive and integrated way without calling it forest gardening. Malcolm Berry, aka The Dreaded Gardener, is one shining example. I remember well a talk he gave to a local gardening club, and I asked him what his favourite wildlife plant was. Well, all of them, of course.

And this is why a forest garden works, because it works as an ecosystem. You can’t isolate one part, it has to be all together now.

Apologies for late delivery of the newsletter. In today’s livestream I’ll be looking at my current projects, where I’m trying to integrate ornamental, native and edible gardening, in a domestic patio setting and on a eco-housing development.

Some sort of dandelion, fulfilling all its ecological functions with ease

Livestream

• Date: Wednesday 28th October

• Time: 10—10.30am

• Livestream: twitch.tv/forestgardenwales

Zoom Q&A

• Zoom link

• Time: 10.30—11:00am

• Zoom password: chuckle

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The Backyard Forest online course

My online forest garden course The Backyard Forest is ticking along. I’m slowly adding more practical walkthrough videos. I feel the course would benefit from practical assignments and quizzes, the gamification of forest gardening, to encourage greater engagement.

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